A Long Term Story with Long Term Impacts…
Long term residential care experiences some unique issues, in addition to the standard demographic challenges and cost pressures faced by all healthcare organizations. Care groups may have one or a few, hundreds, or thousands of homes across multiple countries with residences varying in number of beds and patient care needs. The geographically dispersed perspective presents a unique challenge for consistency and calls for strong staffing governance. In these environments there is an opportunity to sustain consistent and standardized approaches given the organization ability to maintain consistency in many areas across residences. Given the achievement of 5-star quality ratings and alignment with government requirements such as Payroll Based Journals are critical to the business, strong governance over shift planning, resource deployment, and workforce scheduling is critical. Here’s an example of how we can help:
